Eye set



Feb. 1o, 1931.

' S. MARCUS EYE sE'r Filed Aug. 28. 1928 NVENTOR Jamuel Marcy/J SAMUEL MARCUS, OF RIVERCDALE,

ING 00., 1110., OF NET/V YORK, N, Y.

t V cient carrier portion by which the 5 i may be quickly and 30 taching the eye set 2 the head and forfastening eye set comprising carrier ly support the eyes Patented Feb; 10,1931

NEW YORK, Assr Noa T0 MARKON' Ni oFF l A CORBORATION 0F NEWIYORK I I EYE SET" 7 Application filed August 28,

This invention relates to an eye set, and a particular object of the invention is to provide an eye set embodying anovel and efii- I eyes proper are supported within the head. 7 I V A more detailed'objeot is to 'providea car; rier which is 'of simple design, which may be readily and cheaply manufactured, which easily operatedfor at-.' within a doll head, and, to properly and efficientwithinthe head; A furtherand more specific purpose of-the which will function present improvement is to provide a'carrier I 15 which isadapted to .be mounted preferably in a vertical position within a head and which has widely spaced end portions mo erative with prepared parts of the head for determining the position ofth'e eye set within it there. i

A further detailed objectis to provide'an eye set comprising a carrier having means for temporarily retaining the carrier in position Within a doll head and having other means 2 for permanently retainingit within the doll head. i i r 1 -A further, detailed object is to provide an having-movable attaching devices thereon for'j permanently attaching the carrier withinadollhead, and

to provide aca-rrierQWith means to ,be impaled within the material of, the head to temporarily retain the carrier in aiselect'ed position during the movement of 'said at-f taching devices.

Other objects and aims of the invention,

7 more or less specific thanthoserreferre'd to above,

rangements of parts and several l'atlon. a jRe'ferring' to the drawingsjfor describing v a pair; of arms as hold the eye balls in derstood. i

was. seen No. 302,549.; a c

a doll headhaving anieye set therein in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 21s a vertlcal sectional view taken MAN nAoTuR- substantially upon the plane of line IIII of Fig. '1.

3 is an'enlarged sectional viewtaken' upgn the plane of line. IIIIII otFig l, V

4 is a perspective view showing: the

parts of the carrier in detachedrein detail the structure illustrated therein, the

reference character L indicates a doll head having the usualeye openings as 1 and-2am.

its front wall.

The eye set includes the usual eye balls,

as 3 and et. These may be connected withth'e carrier by any'appropriate'meansbut for con- V 7o zit-opposite ends of a cross rod 5 which is i I veuience are here shown as being arranged received throughbearings 6 7 provided in 8-9vvhi'ch project forwardly from the mid-portion of the carrier, and particularly fromthe body member 10 of the carrier. 1

The cross rod may preferably be yieldingly supported by the arn1s8-9 by making th i bearings 6 7 elongated as shown and pro-f viding a lightv spring, or

springs, as 11, for bearing against the side ends of said bearings in normal use.

i A laterally extendingfarm as 13 maybe connected with the cross point mid-way between andvma y and-reclining positions, as'will be readily unrhe body mtmber' r the carri r m'a a rod, preferably at a.

the "arms .8'a'nd 9,

depend from the'crossrod tq my a weightas l'for causing a gravity con-v trolled relative oscillatory movement ofthe j eyes when the doll is moved between uprightof the cross rod to urge the'cross rodforwardlyand hence to light frictional contact with therearwardly facing cjoncaved surfaces; 12 of the eyefopenings, it beingunderstood that in use'the carrier is stationary Within the'head' and that the slotted bearings 6.7 Y w maybe suflicientlylong so'tha't the cross rod will at no time engage the outerv or forward.

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through for accommodating passage} and movement of the arm 13 between ,two extremes, the movement of the arm 13 to eye I shaped to provide tangs as 25 7735 v body 10. V

opening position being limited by engagement of the weight with a surface port on as 16 of the head, and the movementoi': said arm to eye closing position being limited by ten:

.ga-gement of said arm with a spring finger as 17. which may be conveniently provided from the materialstruck out from the body in the formation of the opening 15.

The body member of the carrier is suitably elongated so that it extends across the region of the eyes and has its opposite ends adjacent to opposite wall-parts of thehead either hori- Zontally or vertically as may bexpre'ferred, the vertical arrangement. being however herein shown and specifically described.

to, the carrier comprlses'a pair of attaching members as 18- and 19 one arranged atone end of the carrier and the other at the opposite end of the carrier. In. the instance illustrated these are of form and consist each of a main parallel to each guide; parts as23-9A provided upon. the At one end; each attaching member is one, or more prongs or eral 'direc thrust into'the material of thedoll head,sub

stantiall-y as indicated, for thereby rigidly I V I Y a being offa character as more The turned over edges of the attaching connecting the carrier to the head.

members provide end edge wall surfaces as movement of the attaching.

dinally of the body is I means of a;tool assuggested,

26+-26 adjacent the tangs" 25 for ab'utting against the opposing wall surfaces as 27%27 ofthe head for limiting the distanceto which the head. 1 a V Each attaching member i's-preferably pro vided with laterally p'rojecting lugs as 28+28 thereon constituting means tobe gripped by a tool of appropriate construction for forcing the attaching members slidably along the body both to andtrom attaching-position.

The fit of the attaching members on to the" body, that is the lit of the interengaging guide-way parts 2l22 and 23-24, is 111- tendedto be sufiiciently tight so that while movement ofthe attaching members longit-u possible when force is applied as by there will be no likelihood of any relative membersv upon the body at any other time. taching members have been driven to'a'ttach ing position they will remainin that position between the opposite body is substantially identical portion- 20' having turned over edges toprovide guide- 7 ways as 21 and 22 thereon other and arranged to receive co-operative ,within doll head the ..;see is projecting there'fromin the gen tion of length of the -:carrier and --adapted, when the attaching members are slid outwardly along the body in use to be complete.

"rearwardly "facing abi'itm'ents tionship, as" 'to position,

' adapted to co-operate carrier I Engagement of the attaching the carrier againstthe 'abutments will limit 7 Once the. fat.

ia roper contact 7 concaved surfaces l2 of the eye openings,

, ment with the head.

The body member 10 of the carrier is pre'h erably of U shape in cross section and the guide parts 23+2etare formed as lateral edge flanges from the legs as suitable degree o fflexibility is provided as guide parts, the width of the space provided between the two guideways'2l-22 of slightly less than the distance between the outer edges of the guide parts 23- 5%, thereby providing for" the generation of a strong spring frictional grip of the attaching members upon the body, it being understood that when the attaching members are in position 7 upon the body the connecting portion as 31 In addition to the parts already referred of the U will be abnormally bowed by pressure of the attachingmembers against the legs of the U and'that. the material of the such as to possess an inherent tendency-to yieldingly oppose the bowing of the portion 31, a a

liiattaching an eyesetas above described first positioned 29 oftheU so that a u the attaching members belng with the eye-balls 3- 'larranged within the eye openings of the head and'lwiththeattachmg members adjacent to the opposing wall surface parts 27-j-27 of the head,

Thereupon thev attaching members are slid outwardly al'on thebody. to drive the tangs 25-in'to said wal parts, and the opera-tion is The doll head illustrated includes, in addition to the parts. already described, a'pair of 3232 arranged adjacent tofthe wall parts 27-27,

'iully'described I andclai'med in a co-pending application; filed concurrently herewith, file No, M267. These abutments bear a lpredetermined relawith respect tothe eye 'opeiningsof the head, and the'cairier of the eye set herein described is peculiarly with said abutments, particularly, the attaching members offsa'id carrierareshaped to p'rovidefb'roadflatter; H

wardly facing surfaces as 33 int-hefsa'me vertical plane as the tangs 25'of said attaching members so may rest against and move along said abutments during the operation of adjusting "the to dispose the eyes in proper alignment with the headope'nings. 7 H 'embersfot the forward movement of the carrier toward the front wall-ofthe head, and due to the relative "positions or the abutments and head openings will determine the degreefot flex in'giof-springll in'itslefior't to holdthefeyes. with the rearwardly facing "that said tangs and surfaces In some instances it is desirable to provide means for holding the body member 10 of the carrier against possibility of objectionable movement after it has been manually ad justed to position the eyes of the set within the head openings and particularly during the time while the attaching members ofthe carrier-are being slid to attachmg position. F or this purposethe drawing herewith suggests the use of a suitable retaining device carried by the body member and adapted to be engaged directly with the head independently of the attaching members at any time.

'In the instance illustrated this retaining devyice is shown to consist the tang 34 into the material of the abutment,l

and thereafter the attaching members 18 and 19 of the carrier may be forcefully slid to attaching position without likelihood or deranging the adjustment of the carrier.

Nhile' only a single tang as 3i is shown, it will be understood that thisis merely eX- emplary and that any number of tangs may be used, and that they may be arranged'at any suitable place or places upon the carrier, or that any other appropriate form of retaining device may be employed as may be preferred. 7 i

It will be understood that where tangs as 34 are employed the yieldable mounting of" the eyes upon the carrier willenable the carrier to have a sufficient range of bodily movement to impale the tangs without materially disturbing the adjusted relationship of the eyes within the head openings- 7 The fact that the carrier engages the lim-- iting abutments 32 of the head by its opposite ends which are widely spaced from each other across avoids the necessity for extreme accuracy either in the manufacture of the head or the set or in the operation of assembling these parts together, since, any slight variation in details of the manufactured product or any slight misadjustment of the setin its assembly with the head the region of the eye openings will be considerably min- I construction without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in thefollowing claims,- it is intended that all matter contained in the above description, or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be in:-

terpreted as illustrative only and notin a limiting sense. i i v Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent .is i Y V w 1. An eye set comprising a pair'of eyes, a carrier for said eyes by which the eyes are oscillatably supportechthe carrier comprising a body member and an attaching member slidably mounted thereon into attaching position, the body member being formed of sheet metal bent longitudinally into U cross section thereby rendering the legs of the U yieldable toward each other, and the attaching member slidably engaging the legs of the U and holding said legs 7 to thereby hold the attaching member against accidental sliding movementy 2; In an eye set comprisingra pair of eyes,"a

carrier for'said eyes by whichthe eyesare- V oscillatably supported, and attaching memflexed toward each other bers formed, as apart of the carrier movable thereon to attachthe carrier in position with in a doll head, the combination therewith of i i h the head for retaining the carrier against movement wit-h respect ing position, and said other means compris ing a tang provided upon the carrier pro jecting' therefrom intended to be impaled within the material ofthe head.

, 3, An eye set comprising a pair of eyes, a carrier for said eyes-by which the eyes are oscillatably supported, said carrier having a tang projecting therefrom to be impaled into doll'head to serve as an i attaching means for said carrier, and'said' the material of the carrier having other tangs thereon movable with respectithereto in opposite-directions away from each, other into impaled relation with the material'of the doll head along paths in angular relation to the first tang.

In testlmony whereof I affix my signature.

I SAMUEL MARCUS.

Inized in their effect upon the fit :of the, 1 1

ments, due to slight inaccuracy of adjustment of one end of the carrier with respect to said abutment,

will be reduced approximately 50 per cent in its effect upon the positionof the eye-balls,

As many changes could be made in' this i this because of the vlocation of the eyeballs f i at a point substantially mid-way between the r ends of their carrier.

er means comprised in the set to engage V p to the head during movementof theattaching-mean's-to attach 

